Full CV

J.S.M., Stanford University, 2004

MSc (Comparative Politics) (with Mark of Distinction), London School of Economics & Political Science, 1998

LL.B. (Second Upper Honours), National University of Singapore, 1995

Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore), 1996

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

Assistant Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, July 2005-Present

Previous Appointments:

Lecturer-in-Law, Singapore Management University, 2001-2005

Senior Tutor, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore, 1999–2001

Research Associate, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1998-1999

Foreign Service Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore, 1996-1997

Other Positions

Member, Tan Kah Kee Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship Selection Committee, 2006-Present

Member, International Standards Organization (ISO) Mirror Working Group on Social Responsibility, SPRING Singapore, 2006-Present

Member, Taskforce for Principles for Responsible Business Education, UN Global Compact, 2007

Team Manager, Singapore Olympic Swim Team, 28th Olympiad, Athens, Greece, 2004

Honorary Assistant Secretary-General , Singapore Swimming Association, 2002 -2004

Team Manager, Singapore National Water-polo Team, 14 th Asian Games, Busan, South Korea, 2002

Honours & Awards

Academic:

Stanford Program in International Legal Studies Scholarship, Stanford Law School, USA, 2004-2005

Solomon Asch Centre for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict Summer Institute Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, USA, 2005

Stanford Centre on Conflict and Negotiation Graduate Student Fellowship, Stanford University, USA, 2005

Fulbright Fellow, 2003-2004

Fellow, Stanford Program in International Legal Studies, Stanford Law School, USA, 2003-2004

Tan Kah Kee Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship, Tan Kah Kee Foundation, 2003-2004

Robert McKenzie Memorial Prize, London School of Economics & Political Science, 1999

Tun Dato Sir Cheng Lock Tan Scholarship, Tun Dato Sir Cheng Lock Tan Trust Fund and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1997-1998

Non-Academic:

Meritorious Service Award (Kurnia Jasa Gemilang), The Singapore Scout Association, 1996

Green Leaf Award (Youth), Ministry of the Environment, Singapore, 1994

Courses Taught in SMU

Ethics and Social Responsibility (University core course)

Constitutional & Administrative Law (Law Year 2 core course)

Managing Ethical Dilemmas and Corporate Governance (MBA)

Research Areas

Public Law

Law, Society, and Public Policy

Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Corruption, Governance and Public Ethics

Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict Regulation

Government and Politics of Singapore

Current Projects

Multiracialism in Singapore

Corporate Social Responsibility in Singapore

ASEAN Charter

Social Compact in Singapore Governance

Chinese-Singaporean Identities (c. 1990-2003)

Selected Book, Journal & Other Publications

Eugene K B Tan (2008), "The Evolving Social Compact and the Transformation of Singapore: Going Beyond Quid Pro Quos in Governance," in K Kesavapany and Terence Chong (eds), The Management of Singapore Revisited: A Critical Survey of Modern Singapore, (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies), Forthcoming

Eugene K B Tan (2008), "Keeping God in Place: The Management of Religion in Singapore", in Lai Ah Eng (ed.), Religious Diversity in Singapore (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Institute of Policy Studies, National University of Singapore), 55-82

Eugene K B Tan (2008), ‘A Union of Gender Equality and Pragmatic Patriarchy: International Marriages and Citizenship Laws in Singapore,’ Citizenship Studies, 12(1), 73-89

Eugene K B Tan (2008) ‘Overview of Singapore Legal History and Development,’ in George Shenoy and Loo Wee Ling (eds), Principles of Singapore Business Law ( Singapore: Cengage Learning), 25-38

Eugene K B Tan and Gary Chan (2008) ‘Business, Society and the Law,’ in George Shenoy and Loo Wee Ling (eds), Principles of Singapore Business Law (Singapore: Cengage Learning), 3-23

Eugene K B Tan (2007), ‘Norming Moderation in an “Iconic Target”: Public Policy and the Regulation of Religious Anxieties in Singapore,’ Terrorism and Political Violence, 19(4), 443-462

Eugene K B Tan (2007), "The Multilingual State in Search of the Nation: The Language Discourse in Singapore’s Nation-Building,’ in Lee Hock Guan and Leo Suryadinata (eds.), Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Publishing), 74-117

Eugene K B Tan (2007), "Harmony as Ideology, Culture, and Control: Alternative Dispute Resolution in Singapore", Australian Journal of Asian Law, 9(1), 120-151

Eugene K B Tan (2007), "Can We Leave this World Better than We Found it?’ in Roy Eidelson, Jena Laske, and Lina Cherfas (eds.), Peacemaker 101: Careers Confronting Conflict (Philadelphia, PA: Solomon Asch Centre for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania), 173-179

Eugene K B Tan (2007), “Singapore", [on Singapore-USA bilateral relations] in David Levinson & Karen Christensen (eds.), Global Perspectives on the United States: A Nation by Nation Survey (Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing), 565-568

Eugene K B Tan (2006-2007), "The Lion Engages the Dragon and the Elephant: Singapore as a Knowledge Arbitrageur in a New Asia", Journal of Asian Business, 22 (2&3) & 23 (1) (Special issue on ‘The Power of Knowing: Studies of Chinese Business in Asia’)

Gary Chan and Eugene K B Tan (2007), "The Singapore Legal System", Singapore Law Online at http://www.singaporelaw.sg/

Eugene K B Tan (2005), ‘Multiracialism Engineered: The Limits of Electoral and Spatial Integration in Singapore,’ Ethnopolitics, 4(4): 413-428 (Also published in Florian Bieber and Stefan Wolff (eds), The Ethnopolitics of Elections (London & New York: Routledge, 2007), 53-68)

Eugene K B Tan (2004), "The Majority’s Sacrifices and Yearnings: Chinese-Singaporeans and the Dilemmas of Nation-Building", in Leo Suryadinata (ed.), Ethnic Relations and Nation Building in Southeast Asia (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies), 188-226

Eugene K B Tan (2004), "We, the Citizens of Singapore": Multi-ethnicity, its Evolution and its Aberrations", in Lai Ah Eng (ed.), Beyond Rituals and Riots: Ethnic Relations and Social Cohesion in Singapore (Singapore: Eastern Universities Press), 65-97

Eugene K B Tan and Gary Chan (2004), "Introduction to the Singapore Legal System", in Andrew Phang (ed.), Basic Principles of Singapore Business Law (Thomson Learning, Singapore), 3-51

Eugene K B Tan (2003), "Re-engaging Chineseness: Political, Economic and Cultural Imperatives of Nation-Building in Singapore", China Quarterly, 175, 751-774

Eugene K B Tan (2002), "'We'" v. 'I': Communitarian Legalism in Singapore", Australian Journal of Asian Law, 4(1), 1-29

Eugene K B Tan (2001), "From Sojourners to Citizens: Managing the Ethnic Chinese Minority in Indonesia and Malaysia", Ethnic and Racial Studies, 24(6), 949-978.

Eugene Tan (2000), "Success amidst Prejudice?: Guanxi Networks in Chinese Businesses in Indonesia and Malaysia", Journal of Asian Business, 16(1), 65-84,

Eugene Tan (2000), "Law and Values in Governance: The Singapore Way", Hong Kong Law Journal, 30(1), 91-119